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Caesarea Maritima

Leslie J. Hoppe

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2013-03-19

Caesarea Maritima Introduction Caesarea Maritima was a port city built by Herod the Great in 22 bce on the site of the Hellenistic period anch...

Canon, Biblical

Lee Martin McDonald

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

Biblical Canon Introduction A biblical canon is the collection of books that comprise the sacred scriptures or Bibles of Jews and Christian...

Christology

David B. Capes

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2012-02-06

Christology Introduction Christology refers to that branch of Christian theology concerned primarily with the person and work of Jesus. From t...

Chronicles, 1 and 2

Steven Shawn Tuell

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

1 and 2 Chronicles Introduction Although divided into two books in modern Bibles (a division dating to the Septuagint), Chronicles was orig...

Clothing

Alicia Batten

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Clothing Introduction Clothing refers to skins or woven garments that cover the body in some manner. Clothing is more specific than dress, whi...

Colossians

Jerry L. Sumney

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2012-01-11

Colossians Introduction Colossians is often seen as a letter on the edge of the transition from Pauline to post-Pauline thought, being identifi...

Corinthians, 2

Thomas D. Stegman

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

2 Corinthians Introduction Paul’s second (canonical) letter to the Corinthians is one of the undisputed Pauline epistles (i.e., scholars ar...

Daniel

Carol Newsom

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

Daniel Introduction The book of Daniel contains a collection of short narratives about Daniel and his three friends at the courts of pagan ki...

David

Victor H. Matthews

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

David Introduction Few persons mentioned in the biblical text have had as much influence on later traditions as has David. This complex bib...

Demons

Matthew Goff

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2011-11-29

Demons Introduction The term “demon” is used to describe a wide variety of spiritual beings. The word derives from the Greek term daimōn which ...

Deuteronomistic History

Gary N. Knoppers, Jonathan S. Greer

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

Deuteronomistic History Introduction The Deuteronomistic History (DH) is a modern theoretical construct holding that behind the present for...

Deuteronomy

Stephen L. Cook

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

Deuteronomy Introduction Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It stands last in the section known as the books ...

Ecclesiastes/Qohelet

Timothy J. Sandoval

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2011-07-27

Ecclesiastes/Qohelet Introduction As Carol Newsom remarks in her review of scholarship on Ecclesiastes (Qohelet), in discussions of the history...

Elijah

Eric Lee Welch, Gary N. Knoppers

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Elijah Introduction The accounts of the career of the prophet Elijah are found in 1 Kings 17–19, 21; and in 2 Kings 1 and 2. As presented in K...

Enoch

Pierluigi Piovanelli

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Enoch Introduction The various books of Enoch, beginning with the five or six booklets that constitute 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch to 3 (Hebrew) Enoch ...

Epistles, Catholic

Peter H. Davids

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

Catholic Epistles Introduction Alongside the four Gospels, Acts, the Pauline letters (which often included Hebrews) and the Apocalypse, the...

Esther and Additions to Esther

Jill Middlemas

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Esther and Additions to Esther Introduction The biblical book of Esther is the story of a Jewish heroine (Esther, or Hadassah—the character’s H...

Ethics

Bruce C. Birch

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2012-01-11

Ethics Introduction The modern discussion of biblical ethics began in the 1970s. There were, of course, important precursors to that developmen...

Exodus, Book of

Thomas B. Dozeman

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2010-09-13

Book of Exodus Introduction Exodus is the second book in the Torah, or Pentateuch, of the Hebrew Bible. It follows the story of the Israelite...

Ezekiel

Jacqueline Lapsley

Subject: Biblical Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Ezekiel Introduction The book of Ezekiel, with its forty-eight chapters, is the third of the so-called Major Prophets (after Isaiah and Jeremia...

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